Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins

These pumpkin cream cheese muffins combine pumpkin, fall spices, and a cream cheese swirl for one delicious bite. They’re perfect for a grab and go breakfast, a pumpkin dessert, or brunch.

Fall Breakfast

Yesterday it was like 90 degrees and today it’s rainy and 60. Almost like the world is saying hey it’s the first day of school and time for fall!

And I say to that – bring in all the fall recipes starting with these pumpkin muffins with cream cheese filling. Then if you want more pumpkin – try this pumpkin crunch cake, these pumpkin cheesecake bars, or even these pumpkin chocolate chip cookies!

There’s a secret to these muffins – they’re even better a day or two after you make them. Chill them in the refrigerator and that cream cheese filling tastes almost like cheesecake, not just cream cheese.

And right now, I think we could all use a little cheesecake for breakfast.

You’ll love these muffins because

1. They use ingredients you likely already have in your pantry (other than maybe the pumpkin).
2. The cream cheese filling just gets better as it sits and chills, so they’re great for making once and eating all week.
3. They’re super moist and flavorful!

Ingredients

Ingredient Notes

• Pumpkin Puree – this is the same thing as just regular canned pumpkin.
• Yogurt – any kind of regular yogurt or Greek yogurt works, just make sure it’s plain, not the flavored kind.

Instructions

Once you see how easy these are to make, you’re going to want to go make them right away! I know I did!

1 – Prep

Before you get started making the muffins, preheat the oven and either spray a muffin tin or add cupcake wrappers to a muffin tin.

I love using these silicone cupcake liners because the muffins come out of them so easy. Plus, you can just wash them quickly and reuse again!

They’re great for everything from these breakfast muffins to mini calzones.

2 – Make your batter

While the oven is preheating, it’s time to make the muffin batter. Combine all the dry ingredients (flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and pumpkin pie spice) together in a large bowl.

In another bowl, combine the wet ingredients – pumpkin puree, butter, yogurt, vanilla, and egg.

Then make a well in the center of the wet ingredients and add the bowl of dry ingredients to the wet. Stir together until completely combined.

3 – Make The Filling

Combine cream cheese, vanilla, flour, sugar, and milk in a bowl and beat until smooth to make the filling.

4 – Assemble

Fill the muffin tin about a third full with batter. Add 1 TBS cream cheese mixture on top of the batter then cover with the remaining batter.

Take a toothpick and swirl the batter and cream cheese together.

Once they’re all done, bake. Allow the muffins to cool completely before removing from the muffin tins.

Enjoy either cooled or even better, chilled in the refrigerator, so that cream cheese has a chance to set and turn into that cheesecake like filling.

Expert Tips

Don’t over mix the batter, just mix until the wet and dry ingredients are well combined.

Soften the cream cheese by taking it out of the fridge about an hour before you’re ready to make these muffins. If it’s still cold, you’ll end up with cream cheese chunks instead of a smooth filling.

Only fill the muffin tin about 1/3 full the first time you add batter. If you do much more, the muffins will end up being huge and overflowing. They’ll taste fine, but you won’t get as many muffins.

When you’re adding the second half the batter, you want to fill the muffin tins only to about 3/4 full. This will keep them from overflowing.

Recipe FAQs

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